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, D-Arizona, swung into town last night (March 1, 1984) for U.S. Rep.
William Ratchford
's fundraiser at the Amber Room, attended by about 550 party supporters.

Udall ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1976.

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More than 220,000 square feet of new retail space will be available in three shopping centers in the region this year, opening up space for about 30 new retail stores and about 400 new full- and part-time jobs.

The largest of the strip shopping centers will be Nutmeg Square on Newtown Road on Danbury's east side, being constructed by Ervie Hawley of Danbury, developer of three other strip centers in the immediate area.

Nutmeg Square has been under construction for almost three years because Hawley had to move a mountain of rock from the site.

The Hawleys are also putting finishing touches on a much smaller shopping center on Germantown Road in Danbury -- a 40,000-square-foot strip center.

The third shopping center is the Shop-Rite Plaza on Federal Road in Brookfield, the site of the new
Super Shop
-Rite market and six other tenants.

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In the wake of a mugging and sexual assault near the Danbury midtown campus this semester that have kindled rumors and unnerved dormitory students,
Western Connecticut State College
administrators have given campus police permission to hire seven students to assist in patrolling the midtown campus after dark.

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A
Western Connecticut State University
student who was delivering a pizza for Domino's to an apartment on Wildman Street in Danbury thwarted a robbery by kicking a man who surprised him from behind in the groin.

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Danbury police prevented a man in the city jail from hanging himself with his socks over the weekend.

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The Crosstown IGA Foodliner on Danbury Road in New Milford, owned by
Richard Morey
and
Frank Bentham
, will close its doors April 1 (1984).

It's the victim of rising energy and rental costs and some stiff competition from the new Super Stop & Shop nearby, as well as from the supermarket's sister store, Morey's IGA at 40 East St., which saw its business increase after it added a new bakery and deli department.

Bernard
S. Baker
, president of
Energy Research Corp. of Danbury
, told the House Energy Development subcommittee in Washington that his firm has designed a direct fuel cell-powered plant that requires few extra steps to convert heat from fossil fuels into electricity and is about 40 percent more efficient than a normal power plant.

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Danbury
Common Council
members this week officially christened Bronson Drive -- which had three different names in three sections -- as Harbor Ridge Road.

East Shores residents submitted a petition asking that the board reconsider its previous stand, pointing out that it will involve an approximately 30-mile round trip around Lake Candlewood for pupils of the East Shores.

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The Robert Hall clothing store on the Danbury-Brookfield highway (Route 7) officially opened this week, making Route 7 look as crowded as the Merritt Parkway on a Sunday afternoon.